DRC: Government calls peace summit to end North Kivu conflict

Democratic Republic of Congo has called a peace summit for Dec. 27 to try to end fighting between Tutsi dissidents, government forces and other fighters in its North Kivu province, officials said on Thursday. Several mediation efforts and military campaigns have failed to end years of fighting in the eastern province, where the presence of Rwandan Hutu fighters accused of leading their country's 1994 genocide has provoked conflicts, including Congo's 1998-2003 war.